Toni Usman
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Toni Usman was born in Pakistan but has lived in Norway most of his
life. He trained as an actor with Bollywood star-maker Asha Chandra in
Mumbai, India. In Norway he has worked as a freelance actor since 1987
with engagements at NRK 1 (the country's largest TV channel),
Radioteatret, Riksteatret, Teater Ibsen, etc. In 1992 Usman was one of
the people behind a Norwegian-Pakistani version of Henrik Ibsen's "A
Doll's House" that premiered at the Ibsen Festival. On Norway's second
largest television station TV2 Usman has co-starred in the sitcom "Bot
og bedring" and was memorable as the gangster Iqbal Hussain in several
episodes of the critically acclaimed police-series "Fox
Grønland".
